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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Some FreeBSD issues Post 36598 by cbkihong on Sunday 1st of June 2003 09:36:06 AM

06-01-2003

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Thank you for your reply. I don't have problems with ports or packages in general. However, I am generally more fond of 'traditional' manual 'configure-make-make install' method for certain kinds of applications that I would like to keep constantly current. And this is a bit problematic. I also think I am missing something, somewhere, in the system configuration as I am not that familiar with the specifics of FreeBSD yet (I have yet to see how something I customarily do with my particular linux distro is to be done on FreeBSD).

I initially installed gnome from packages with /stand/sysinstall. However, it failed to start (typed gnome-session from console) and simply stated "unable to open display". So I think I may try and see if I can compile KDE myself (which have been compiling rather effortlessly on my linux box). I know that some packages, say libjpeg has already been compiled and installed (I explicitly installed them, again, from source), but the ./configure error log of some packages say the library files cannot be found, despite I have found the relevant .h and .so files installed in /usr/local/include and /usr/local/lib, until I pass them as parameters to ./configure as "with-extra-includes" and "with-extra-libs" that they can finally be found, and can then be compiled. I think if I always have to pass such parameters manually it is very messy.

I have to manually compile some applications in order to work in the way I want on my specific locale. Like vim, to enable the use of cjk on Linux I need to pass a lot of parameters to ./configure. So in general ports/packages on FreeBSD, though one exists, may not work for me on this regard (I may be wrong -- please correct me).

I do understand there can be more problems if I don't stick to ports/packages and compile everything myself. I compiled xfree86 4.3.0 from sources as I can't find that version from my ports. My compiled x-windows works perfectly. But it seems by doing so I can no longer use ports/packages for any x applications as the ports assume xfree86 4.2.0 instead of 4.3.0. if I use those ports/packages then xfree 4.2.0 would be fetched and installed, and that is definitely not what I want.

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pk-debuginfo-install

PK-DEBUGINFO-INSTA(1)						  [FIXME: manual]					     PK-DEBUGINFO-INSTA(1)

NAME

       pk-debuginfo-install - Debugging Packages Installer

SYNOPSIS

       pk-debuginfo-install [--help] [--verbose] [--simulate] [--no-depends]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the pk-debuginfo-install command.

       pk-debuginfo-install is the command line client for installing debuginfo packages.

WHY DO I NEED DEBUGINFO PACKAGES
?
       When a program crashes, it's often useful to send the developer a backtrace which contains symbol names and variable contents, rather than
       memory addresses. To make this possible, extra packages called debug packages can be installed.

OPTIONS

       This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included
       below.

       --help
	   Show summary of options.

       --noninteractive
	   Do not be interactive and skip the confirmation before the packages are installed.

       --verbose
	   Show extra debugging information.

       --simulate
	   Don't actually install any packages, only simulate what would be installed.

       --no-depends
	   Do not scan for, or install dependencies of the core packages.

       --quiet
	   Do not display information or progress to the terminal.

RETURN VALUES

       0
	   Success, at least one package was installed

       1
	   Failed with miscellaneous internal error.

       3
	   Failed to get software sources list.

       4
	   Failed to enable software sources.

       5
	   Failed as nothing to do.

       6
	   Failed to find dependent packages.

       7
	   Failed to install.

       8
	   Failed to disable software sources.

SEE ALSO

       pkmon (1).  pkcon(1).

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Richard Hughes richard@hughsie.com.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2009 Richard Hughes

[FIXME: source] 						   29 July,2009 					     PK-DEBUGINFO-INSTA(1)

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